Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WITH the publication of "The Past Recaptured," the translation of Marcel Proust's great novel, "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu," under the title "Remembrance of Things Past," is brought to a close. As the Italian critic Umberto Morra has said, men may imitate parts of it with some success, but the whole will never again be equaled. In the present literary world where few writers and critics have been able to agree about anything, all have joined in their homage to the work of Proust...
NOBODY STARVES-Catharine Brody- Longmans, Green ($2).* No proletarian, no Communist, nobody has yet written a first-class proletarian novel. Nearest so far is John Dos Passos' The 42nd Parallel. Nobody Starves starts out as though it might ring a new bull's-eye but it turns out to be just another ricochet. Though proletarian authors and capitalist critics would never agree on what makes a good novel, even a proletarian would want a novel to be more than a case history. Nobody Starves is a painstaking, truthful-sounding case history...
...thesis of the book from the eye of everyone but the vigilant CRIMSON man? "The author argues that literature should be judged sociologically rather than aesthetically." I thought he argued that there is no such thing as aesthetic apart from sociological judgment. "The sociological conditions which brought about a novel like 'Oil'. . . have passed." It would be interesting, and faintly reminiscent of Mr. Hoover's assurances that the depression will be over in a few months, to seriously maintain this thesis...
...author argues that literature should be judged sociologically rather than aesthetically. And on this basis he finds Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Upton Sinclair the greatest contemporary writers. But he does not take into consideration the fact that the sociological conditions which brought about a novel like "Oil," which he praises very highly, have passed; it's value sociologically speaking at any rate with likewise pass. Such circumstances are too transitory, too un-universal, too ratiocinative to form a basis for great literature...
...game becomes an armageddon in which machine guns rattle, bombs are thrown, punts shot down. Presently no one much is left except the appalled press agent and a pretty girl sportswriter (Nell O'Day). Rackety Rax was adapted from Joel Sayre's brief novel first published in the American Mercury last January. It uses a simpler technique than recent pictures in the same vein (Once in a Lifetime, The Phantom President) to attain hilarious absurdity. It simply allows the behavior of its characters, who are presented in straightforward fashion, to reach a logical extreme. Good shot: McGloin using...